Comments on: 21st Century Business Models for Artists (3) — DMAIC

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Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:01:05 +0000

[...] Part 3: DMAIC [...]

By: reesa

reesa — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:49:06 +0000

Anthony@#2: A Six Sigma certified expert is one of our business consultants. Thinking to ask him was my idea, and we were all smart enough to listen, hehe.

And yes, I believe the final project to obtain Six Sigma certification is to develop a plan that saves a company more than 1 million dollars a year in efficiency improvements and such. Really neat stuff!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:12:40 +0000

Wow, this is the first time I’ve ever seen Six Sigma approaches applied to artistic projects. Still from a point of view of evaluating and monitoring any project its great tool.

FYI it was originally designed to improve the quality of manufacturing processes.

Great series.

By: kit

kit — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:05:01 +0000

While both models should be used at the beginning of your projects, the DMAIC model is also designed to be useful throughout. It can be applied to existing projects, either the entire project or one aspect of it to help you improve what you already have.

One thing I remember Ken saying was that some artists get tripped up in the ‘Define’ stage: it’s important to allow yourself to imagine your most spectacular achievements, but it’s also important to set realistic short term goals. Definitely keep future growth in mind, but make sure your first steps are ones which are easily achievable and have clear boundaries. As you’ll see in future entries, we organized our own project into “waves” of proposed offerings, beginning with the ones we could realistically offer now and working our way up to future waves made up of revenue streams we don’t yet have the resources, collaborators, or fanbase to properly utilize.